Of course, that young people are not satisfactory to their elders has been the major complaint of less intelligent elderly for thousands of years, so in this respect Ishihara is merely demonstrating that his own education was sadly deficient in correcting this trend…

Old farts have only one thing as a group that binds them: Alzheimer and senility~ Two~ TWO! things in common what all them young rats with their tele-viewings and talking boxes!!! It's like they're going to inherit the world!

Even if some one was to run against him. Japan has 'Standards' as to who they would allow to run. and even more so as to who would even be shown as even possible to be voted for.

If your not a 'role model' citizen then you've no place in the role of goverment. Same can be said for all country and or nations. I mean hell. as soon as the US knew Clinton had a sex life he was gone as well.

Its like they want us to devolve back into the Eighteenth Century.

And as for Young people not having a Culture. Its because you Keep banning it all!

How out of touch with reality can a person really be? The culture that uses mobile phones, television, and computers, along with social media are coalescing to create quite a situation in the Middle East at the moment. Happened before in Tehran as well.

How can someone not acknowledge the positive power that can be wielded by tapping into these technologies, and the fact that it has clearly created it's own culture?

One thing's for sure, today and the future isn't for his fucking generation to keep. This trolling relic better realize that those young people he is speak of are the ones who will shoulder the burden of keeping his country afloat in the next years to come. So why kill their enthusiasm and youth with his outrageous antics?

DD, don't try to make a godwin point here and get some culture : nazi salute is made with right arm extended and straight, with accordingly straight pose. Plus, nazi had some serious sense of fashion and style, unlike him...

manga is a culture, he took it away, and now saying we have no culture.... man, just wait 10 years, well be good. considering that 70% of japans population is above the age of 60, in 10 years these idiots will all be gone...

Old people like him dream of the old days when everyone was being a "good citizen." "Obedient" and "Refined" probably in his mind. Well at least the people of today are way harder to brainwash in politics,religion and all the crap that institutions throw at you.

you look at the pre-hippie bible thumping culture that mindlessly herded to church every Sunday without question.

you look at the hippie culture, that claimed to be about revolution and free thought but mostly was just a bunch of middle class white kids doing a lot of drugs massing together.

frankly you're just perpetuating the exact same stereotype that Ishihara is.
everyone wants to think in the good old days everyone had it figured out and they were "smarter" than the subsequent generations because of the perceived ease at which the older generation seemed to navigate the issues of their day.

the truth of the matter is they went through the exact same growing pains the current youth generation is and will go through.

the only difference is we're 40-50 years removed from THEIR youth.
they've had 40-50 years to find their answers and so when we look back upon their history, we get the abridged story.

"this was their problem."
"oh look, they totally found the solution."
"aren't they smart!"
"why can't the modern youth figure out their problems like the previous generations did?!"

the stories you miss are THEIR rebellious youth culture, THEIR trials with an aging and backwards but still in power authority.

like i said, you read the abridged story.

you see the beginning and the end of their story.
you see the problem and instantly read their solution.
and then you think "wow, they figured it out so easily, they must have been way smarter back then."

but you never get all the stories about the troubles they went through to find those solutions.

I don't think that Your plans to dispose him would change anything. Some other Nazi guy would continue Ishihara's plan or would start something even worse(like otaku genocide ^_^ ). It doesn't mean I'm not agree with You that what He is doing is wrong, but from political perspective You all sound really naive.

I dunno, the kids around me in my adopted homeland seem to do okay. Although there are some retards who usually go with how things flow, I can handpick the rest who really know how to take good care of themselves without having the prospect of being future assholes. I guess what I said only applies as a personal opinion with regards to my current surroundings and it doesn't just apply to kids/teens but to adults as well.

I disagree with you Gracie, I believe young people are easier to brainwash nowadays than in the past. It's a mixture of a loss of good parenting and the replacement of parents by television and teachers that have created a situation in which children and teenagers are susceptible to brainwashing because they no longer seek to question anything, but merely go with the status quo because it's "cool"

I want to know who was dumb enough to vote this idiot in?
Really there should be an investigation of electoral fraud behind Ishithara's election as I cannot see any other way someone like him could have got into office.
Not even Senators in the US can get away with these kind of remarks.

You know what the saddest part of all this is? The fact that all of us complain about this faggot Ishihara and NONE of us can do a damn thing about him. It really pisses me off watching him taunt us while nobody can touch him, not even 2channel.

To be honest, i live in the U.S. where people fuck anyobody without a second thought, and that's how our culture is. In Japan they treat women like shit. The women out there ain't got the same rights as we Americans do. I know our country is far from perfect. But from what I've been readin about, Japan is a fuckin hellhole. I always wanted 2 vizit Japan thinking it's some amazing paradise, but lately, it seeems like a country that's quick to take u to jail for simply looking at someone the wrong way. U look at a girl, locked up. You smile at someone, locked up. You fuckin say one word to someone, LOCKED UP! In America all of these things are considered good manners. So i wonder, if i was to go to Japan where the hell will i end up for just LOOKIN at someone. In conclusion, i'm already irritated by this country as it is, but now... fuck... i really have no conclusion. I honestly want to go to the Japan that i've alwayz dreamed of. Fuck u u chinkz.

we do have a culture, but you guys go saying "it's not a culture, we have but anything less than a 'sub culture'"

times change, like how people go to church for Christmas and Easter only , i don't fear an 'all powerful god'

anyway, you probably hated the hippies, GBLTIQ community as well as the African Americans, or if you are from Australia, then Asians, immigrants, aboriginal and Torres strait islanders, Indians, communists and the greens (political party).

these were (once) hot minority groups for discrimination during the 1950-1970.